By Sabrina Pezzillo Bestseller The shelves still held the same weight that they did yesterday. Rows of beautiful leather-bound pages sat idly in Miss Ann’s bookstore. That week, they aexperienced their third-lowest sales period of the year. And it was only March. Miss Ann shut the large wooden doors for the night, which followed the […]

The bell above Maria’s door chimed weakly. Only three customers had walked through today – barely enough to cover the cost of keeping the lights on. Maria sighed, adjusting the dusty “Garcia’s General Store” sign that hung slightly crooked in the window, just as it had for the past thirty years. The shelves that her […]